Detective and mystery stories
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Firekeeper's Daughter
The Westing Game
The Long Goodbye
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
When We Were Orphans
The Body in the Library
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
A Study in Scarlet
The Godfather
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Moonstone
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
The Secret Garden
Death on the Nile
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
Born in Death
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Shakespeare's secret
Three to Get Deadly
Silent in the Grave
Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
The Clue of the Broken Blade
Death Is Now My Neighbour
A Case of Need
A thin dark line
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